Sherwood Anderson

Figurative language and figures of speech have two functions: first, to add vividness and immediacy; second, to interpret the object described or the attitude towards it. For example, instead of saying that a girl’s hair is black and glossy, you can stir the imagination of the reader if you say that the girl’s hair is black as a raven(simile). Examples: 1. We wouldn’t move a muscle; the room was an oven and we felt we could be roasted bread my moment. (Metaphor) 2. The river showed an insane…

sufferings of the individual with their tool of using irony to depict inner turmoil, conflict, cynicism and the past. Those writers are called, “The Lost Generation” and this name was given to Sinclair Lewis, E.E Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, John Does Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Gould Cozzens and William…

Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age was the new style of literature being published. The literary modernism, which developed in the 1910s and 1920s, was built on the foundations of realism and impressionism of authors like William Dean Howells and Sherwood Anderson.1 These more modern authors that emerged in the 1920s, such as Ernest Hemingway and e.e. cummings, were influenced and impacted greatly by World War I, and became known as the Lost Generation.2 Many of these authors, though, did not…

Rich or poor, male or female, everyone was only concerned with his or her own desires during the Progressive Era, and although this may be considered a negative attribute, it was not in all cases A rich, powerful man in this time period was exceptionally egocentric; however, it is an easy misconception that only these men that this trait. Egocentrism was not only for the rich because the poor’s mentality was self-centered as well. Their social status may have been different, but they thought…

Human disease is something inevitable in the human life cycle and it has created an enormous impact on all living things (Anderson, Salm, Allen & Nester, 2016). Diseases can be caused by a lot of factors from genetics, syndrome development or infection and one way or another, each one of us will experience either one or a combination of all causes. Through the course of time, medical experts and practitioners have invested a lot of time and effort in researching standards and methods in order to…

One’s own flaws can easily lead to a fatal outcome. The tragedy Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller follows the protagonist Willy Loman’s struggles in trying to maintain his job as a salesman and resolve his unstable relationship with his wife and sons. Miller reveals how Aristotle’s Tragic Hero is applied to the common by using Willy Loman as a model. Willy was once respected as a successful salesman but lost this due to his flaws: his excessive arrogance and his inability to realize his lack…

The novel As I Lay Dying is known all around the world to be a Nobel prize book due tothe novelist William Faulkner. Not only is As I lay dying considered a Noble prize bookwhereas, the novel became known in the banned books awareness for the overuse of God’sname, profanity, and abortion which seemed offensive and obscene to people. As ironic as it is,none of the board members had read the book.The Author of As I lay Dying William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippion September 25th in…

In the short stories “Stolen Day” by Sherwood Anderson and “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber there somethings the same about the narrator's and something's different about them. They also have things different like the narrator from “Stolen Day” seeking attention throughout the story and he was envious of this boy named walter who has arthritis he gets a lot of attention. Now the narrator from “The Night the Bed Fell” he is humorous telling the story he made it his own like he was…

Ernest Hemingway A Biographical Criticism Introduction Ernest Hemingway was among the most significant authors in the 20th century. Hemingway’s publications, in form of short fiction and novels left imprints on the literary system of not only the USA, but the entre globe as a whole (Ebersole,143).Currently, the author who is also a Nobel prize winner, is considered among the greatest novelists and is especially renowned for famous works among them A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man And The Sea…

In the course of literature of the twentieth century, Hemingway had made a significant contribution and a distinct change especially in the field of fiction .The author’s style which was not accepted at the beginning has become a school in itself. Hemingway’s personal experiences of the hard realities of the age have revolutionized his ideas and attitudes which have been dramatized in his writings. He experienced the violence of war and its resulting chaos and thus, his writings have discussed…